As I said, I got KOTOR 1 to work just fine, though I had an issue with the grass effects that was causing it to crash that I figured out early on.

KOTOR 2 is proving to be a puzzle. I have followed all the steps on page 1, except for the Blit setting on the Intel video card (though apparently I read that newer Intel video cards don't offer that setting). I can get the game to load and can even start a new game, but it crashes right after the opening cinematic.

ok Astrotoy adn Evil Q i have followed the steps you two have stated to a T, and it still doesnt work. i can get through the caracter creation but after the first video, the one with the star wars scroll and the Ebon Hawk flying to Peragus, it still crashes. i have enven changed everything to Vista SP2 compatibility and still nothing. i really want to play this game and i dont know what else to do. i am running windows 7, anything you two can suggest?

That's the same problem I have, or had before I 'updated' my video card drivers. What's your setup link9mm?

im not really sure but i have intel 4 ingrated graphics, so im pretty sure that is my problem.i have a tower but need the money to get the MOBO hooked up right, ive done it before but cant remember where the power button and other little things plug into it, once i get that done i shouldnt have any trouble playing the game.

I am able to get KotOR 1 running on my win 7 64-bit laptop without crashing but I am having problems with the screen resolution and size, I can only get it to run in 1024 x 768 which means the sides of my screens are just black (not a major gripe) and when a movie plays it is tiny (really annoying), is there anything I can do to fix this?

My graphics card is a nividia Geforce 330M if that is any help and its drivers are fully upto date.

I have a Compaq Presario C770 US laptop (no hardware upgrades, only an OS upgrade, all the drivers are updated) with Windows 7 Professional (64-bit) and I purchased this game (KotOR I) yesterday on Steam as I no longer have access to my sister's Xbox. I also have KotOR 2 for the PC, but have not played it since I upgraded to Windows 7 (It worked fine on XP after downgrading from Vista). The problem I am having is that I am starting the game and after both logos I get a black screen with only the mouse showing up and occasionally the music. I have tried setting it to one affinity core as well as running the compatibility with Windows XP Service Pack 2/3 and running it as administrator and nothing seems to be working. I don't have my desktop set up right now so I cannot play it on that, but I am getting rather annoyed. I have the same problem with KotOR 2, the game worked fine on XP, but Windows 7 seems to not work very well. I seem to have tried everything and have been looking for a few hours for a solution with nothing. Does anyone have any ideas? I have tried the fixes here, but nothing has worked. It seems to be a Windows 7 only thing because as I have stated, KotOR 2 ran fine on this laptop when it had XP.

Edit: Never mind, the problem has been fixed. I wasn't using a Windows 7 Aero theme (fixed my Minecraft problem as well), if you don't use one with Windows 7 then the black screen with music and cursor thing happens.

Hey does anybody else with windows 7 have this problem, or a fix for it. i just installed KOTOR and the game opens and runs fine up untill the menu...i click "game" from the launcher, and it shows the opening credits for lucasarts, bioware, and the high detail picture of malak, and instead of the menu that usually comes up after them i just see a black screen, but here's the wierd part: i still see the mouse, and in the right skin(that blue/green) and i can hear it when i press up/down/enter but i dont see anything and when i put the mouse over where the menu options would be i dont hear the noise it usually makes...any suggestions? Email me at Jack_dark316@hotmail.com (i would love to check this board often untill i get a response, but i dont have wi-fi on my laptop, but i can check my Email with my ipod) but dont let that stop you from posting a fix in the thread anyways in case someone else has the same problem.

Not sure. I initially had some stability issues with KOTOR 1, but they went away when I followed the initial advice in this thread.

As to KOTOR 2... seems to me that right now the people with the technical nohow to answer my question haven't been on in a while. I'm seriously debating just hooking up my old desktop that has XP and just using it to run the game. I just hope that a year or so in storage hasn't made anything in it go bad.

Plus when I removed the new one and put back the old one, the game will start up and then give me this error message:" Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords Has Stopped Working A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows wil close the program and notify you if a solution is avalible."

I tried to install the game. after the instalshield wizard popped up and did its thing there was no other screen starting up. and after checking in the task manager i saw that there was a setup running, only i couldn't see any program running.

I tried to install the game. after the instalshield wizard popped up and did its thing there was no other screen starting up. and after checking in the task manager i saw that there was a setup running, only i couldn't see any program running.

i hope you can figure it out. ive been trying for a few hours now.

Did you read and follow the instructions on the first page of this thread?

I patched it to version 1a and then 1b. The link posted at the beginning of the topic did not work for me, so I downloaded the patches from the LA site.
I'll give it another go today removing it fully and then retrying. I'll let you know if it had any effect.
Thanks for your fast reply!

I should say I added the 3D analyse program, and checked Emulate HW TnL Caps.
Also, I ran BOTH the update from the LA site, and the one from here. Despite one not finishing, I am on the new game version now and it works

For Intel users I would advice not to give up after the first try. I did not have the blit function in my 3D settings, but still it works. I'm a happy Guardian now

The only other thing that I would do is set the width and height values to 1280 and 768 under [Graphics Options] to match the same values under [Display Options]. KotOR2 supports 1280x768 natively, but it's not an available option in the game's menu.

"They should rename the team to the Washington Government Sucks. Put Obama on the helmet. Line the entire walls of the stadium with the actual text of the ACA.

Fix their home team score on the board to the debt clock, they can win every game 17,000,000,000,000 to 24. Losing team gets taxed by the IRS 100%, then droned."

Good one, I for some reason set them in the first, but not in the second. TSL runs really smoothly too I should say, better than KOTOR ever did!
KOTOR had random lines through the worlds on occasion, no such thing here.

I've noticed not all audio tracks are working fine and sometimes conversations are skipping. Is this a known issue? Saw something mentioned about downloading enhanced movie/music files on that site, would that help? It doesn't affect my gameplay so I'm not too worried about this though.

Hello, im an old fan with the kotor games and i wanted to experience them for one more time as i did a few years before. i noticed the problems with windows 7 pro 32bit and i searched on multiple sites how to fix this problem. in the end i came at a hibrid status(im not using the original cd`s).
First of all i used the tutorial on this thread, but my main problem was the original cd detection; so i used a no cd crack that fixed the job.
First the game started with cinematics and all and it went good even with alt+tab through the computer, then i had to shut it down cause the game kept crashing. im gonna paste my ini file here(and yes im using cheats, im a cheater i know ) hope that i made it a bit more clear.
one more thing: i installed only kotor 1, didn`t try it for kotor 2 yet.
here is the .ini file:

I've noticed not all audio tracks are working fine and sometimes conversations are skipping. Is this a known issue? Saw something mentioned about downloading enhanced movie/music files on that site, would that help? It doesn't affect my gameplay so I'm not too worried about this though.

Depends on if you are patched/not patched. T3-M4's dialog is known to be buggy and skippy, although there have been at least 2 mods that address that issue. I have noticed more skippiness when my PC has been in need of a new part - when my GPU started to glitch out a while back, the game began behave much more poorly in dialog and all other cases than is even normal, and I thought it was a mod related issue. She is a sensitive old thing...

Who has the most buggy dialog? My guess would be T3 or the Handmaiden.

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I am not sure if we can help you there. I appreciate your honesty though. I suspect the main problem is with not being to update your game due to your .exe.

Evening, I am trying to get Kotor 1 to run on Windows 7. It's worked fine in the past but now I seem to have problems with it. I have uninstalled it and attempted to reinstall it according the the OP instructions to the best of my ability. Owning a Best of PC version made it a little tricky to decide what was the right course of action and what wasn't.

Originally I attempted to follow these instructions to play the game http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciHkF...eature=related. It sounded crazy but oddly enough it worked up until meeting Canderous. Beyond that most of my bugs are simply black screens after the logos, and sometimes black loading screen freezes.

Depends on if you are patched/not patched. T3-M4's dialog is known to be buggy and skippy, although there have been at least 2 mods that address that issue. I have noticed more skippiness when my PC has been in need of a new part - when my GPU started to glitch out a while back, the game began behave much more poorly in dialog and all other cases than is even normal, and I thought it was a mod related issue. She is a sensitive old thing...

Who has the most buggy dialog? My guess would be T3 or the Handmaiden.

It's in general that conversation goes too fast; I end up fastfowarding to the point where I get to pick an answer... I know the game so it's not too much of a problem, just slightly annoying. It's no specific character. I shouldn't complain, I got it working against the odds

Try installing everything in the order mentioned here, as in post #2. Make sure you update, (for me that was a slight problem) and do things in the right order. Uninstall everything now, reboot (just to be sure), reinstall and try again.

I decided to get out my copy of KOTOR, while trying to install it I have come across 2 problems. First it kept saying "Please insert the proper disk" when i tried to start the autorun.exe (this is a genuine disk), so I skipped it to try and just do install.exe, this started up and began installing the game, it asked for the next disks etc etc until the end, where it said "would you a like shortcut on your desktop?" so i press YES, then it asks for disk 4 again, which is already in. and I cant finish the installation. Can you help? Ive installed this game on my laptop before O.o